Rochester NY Chesterton Society
10th Annual Conference
Points
of Light
Literary Voices Against the Darkness
Joseph Pearce, Author, on JRR Tolkien • Rev. Nathan Allen, Canon Lawyer, on Benson and Knox • Dale Ahlquist, American Chesterton Society, on Dickens • Dr. Tom Martin, Philosophy, Univ. of Nebraska, on Solzhenitsyn
Saturday, September 21st, 2013
9 am — 3:30 pmSt. John Fisher College, Coleman Chapel, Murphy Hall
Donation: $10. Free to students. Lunch will be available at nominal cost.
Funded by the Basilian Fathers of St. John Fisher College.
With support from members of the Rochester NY Chesterton Society and from St. Irenaeus Ministries.
Hear recordings of the talks by:
Lou Horvath
• Joseph Pearce
• Dcn. Nathan Allen
• Dr. Tom Martin
• Dale Ahlquist
• Q&A
Recordings of our past conferences are also available:
- Conversion of Heart: St. Paul, St. Augustine, John Henry Newman, GK Chesterton (2007)
- Paradox and the Pursuit of Truth (2008)
- Re-awakening Wonder (2009)
- What Ought To Be: Themes from Chesterton's What's Wrong with the World (2010)
- Transforming The Culture (2011)
- History Matters (2012)
- Literary Voices Against the Darkness (2013)
- Tremendous Trifles (2014)
- More than Magic (2015)
- -ISMs: a Chestertonian look at what surrounds us (2016)
- On the Shoulders of GIANTS (2017)
- Writing Straight with Cooked Lines (2018)
- Whodunnit? GK Chesterton and the origins of detective fiction (2019)
- Poetry: Fruit of Christian joy (2021)
The Rochester NY Chesterton Society meets the third Thursday of the month, September-December, and March-June. Among our goals are lively discussion, good fellowship, and a deeper appreciation of the work of GKC.
Direct questions to rochesterton@hotmail.com
A letter-sized poster for this event is also available.